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Turncoat said: 

Chapo said: 

I don’t find checkers to be unmistakably worse than chess. It’s a completely different game and it’s not meant to be as complex.

What makes that better or equal though? 

I understand appreciating simplicity when it otherwise denotes an even larger complexity, such as we see from the game Go, but when the complexity goes beneath a certain tier it feels more like a mental exercise than something truly engaging from it lacking the same number of layers, of dimensions to it's potential outcomes. 

If you want to compare Pokémon go battling to checkers and regular to chess I don’t have a real issue with that.

It does seem like an apt comparison, as Pokemon Go at least has more going on than Tic Tac Toe. 

 Quite frankly I find battling in go to be more fun. Not that I find checkers more fun than chess, but I think while the complexity is good for the main games, this is a nearly perfect phone app.

Bet you don’t have Vanillite in your deck & now I do.

You care because Vanilluxe is stronger than Abomasnow.

Oh look it’s Wednesday, Chapo haha.....could it be..?

Med said: 

Bet you don’t have Vanillite in your deck & now I do.

You care because Vanilluxe is stronger than Abomasnow.

Oh look it’s Wednesday, Chapo haha.....could it be..?

 I have vanillite and vanilluxe is not more useful than abomasnow for pvp in literally any format. I recorded some matches but wanted to put microphone audio on top of it and it didn’t work. I can upload those, but I would much rather add my voice to the video.

Chapo said: 

Med said: 

Bet you don’t have Vanillite in your deck & now I do.

You care because Vanilluxe is stronger than Abomasnow.

Oh look it’s Wednesday, Chapo haha.....could it be..?

 I have vanillite and vanilluxe is not more useful than abomasnow for pvp in literally any format. I recorded some matches but wanted to put microphone audio on top of it and it didn’t work. I can upload those, but I would much rather add my voice to the video.

 Yes! Would be funny to record us battling each other 

Yeah I could probably do better if I didn’t love mew so much. Without mic audio I’m sure tc will be critical of this video.

Cresselia is burly, Chapo

I'll admit the little slider minigame for the Gyrados attack and Mew's Flame Charge is kinda sweet, and the combat looks more dynamic visually than it used to, but save for that I still see two Pokemon mostly spamming their caveman moves like a button masher (with goofy unnatural movements and a repetitive noise that sounds like grunting to remind you). The shield mechanic seems kinda bulky instead of natural by comparison to the rest of the battle system, but I can see how that might stall in ways that affect the outcome more than it's former lacking of the system entirely.

I still don't see why they don't bother with status effects beyond stat buffs, or even health draining moves if not moves that affect the opponent's stored energy or something. With the finger slider mechanic for attacks they could have something like Disable have ones come out that you aren't supposed to touch or something. 

Still, I might give it another shot if I end up replacing my busted cellphone. The fact that riding a bike counts as exercise for the game when it comes to grinding candies used to make it pretty easy. 

Med said: 

Cresselia is burly, Chapo

Turncoat said: 

I still don't see why they don't bother with status effects beyond stat buffs, or even health draining moves if not moves that affect the opponent's stored energy or something.

Sure. As to your ‘health draining moves’, the excellent, offensive move Wild Charge—common to more than a few of my favorite Pokémon— will also cause defenses to fall sharply after use. 
Chapo will tell you that employing such a move necessitates following-up with shields 100% of the time....

Med said: 

Turncoat said: 

I still don't see why they don't bother with status effects beyond stat buffs, or even health draining moves if not moves that affect the opponent's stored energy or something.

Sure. As to your ‘health draining moves’, the excellent, offensive move Wild Charge—common to more than a few of my favorite Pokémon— will also cause defenses to fall sharply after use. 

That's just stat mechanics followed by resistances, I want gimmicks. 

With the way this game is structured now, I believe they could add status moves for stuff like poison, paralysis, or sleep without it necessarily breaking the game.